Brasilia

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, Sept 26 - From the butcher's shop where he works near Sao Paulo's historic center, Kleyton Zacarioto says customer traffic has been slowing for years thanks, he says, to a long period of rising food prices. The prolonged squeeze on household budgets has turned the 39-year-old against leftist President…

A giant balloon depicting US President Donald Trump holding Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is seen as supporters of Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL) take part in a rally during the Independence Day parade along Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September…

BRASÍLIA, Sept 4 - An open conflict between justices has engulfed Brazil’s Supreme Court, as it weighs whether to investigate two of its own in what may be the biggest test of its credibility since the country returned to democracy four decades ago. One of the justices at the center…

BRASILIA, Sep 3 - Weeks before Brazil's October election, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is running one of the country's most cautious presidential campaigns in years as he tries to protect a razor-thin lead in the polls against right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, advisers close to his campaign told Reuters.…

Pariente Advisory founder and principal Alex W Pariente assesses political risk, institutional stability and the questions that investors should be asking about Brazil. The first aspect is politics. Congress returned from recess on 3 August, and the government intends to advance PL 2,258/2026 before the first round of the elections.…

PUBLISHED : 18 Aug 2026 at 02:45 Brazil's National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) has ordered the US-based tech company to suspend livestreams on August 12. (Photo: AFP) BRASíLIA - Popular messaging platform Discord said Monday that it had complied with a Brazilian government order to suspend livestreaming and video calls…

Donald Trump’s administration has revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to the US in a sharp escalation of a diplomatic feud with the country’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The US state department said Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti’s visa had been cancelled in retaliation for Brazil’s refusal to approve…

The Trump administration revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to Washington, the latest flash point in a deepening dispute between the United States and Latin America’s biggest and richest country. A senior State Department official told reporters in a background briefing that it was a “reciprocal” action because Brazil has…

The Federal Court in Brasília has provisionally suspended the legal effects of Spribe’s registration of the AVIATOR trademark in Brazil. It also ordered the company to refrain from claiming exclusivity based on that registration until the federal invalidation proceeding is resolved. The Pernambuco Court of Justice has revoked the preliminary…

BRASÍLIA — Illegal miners have adapted their tactics in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory as Brazilian authorities seek to remove all the illegal occupants from the Amazon land, according to a recent report. Since a peak in illegal mining in 2022, there have been “significant and successive reductions” in the rainforest…